Only fans of the book will know what that is. She had travelled to Mexico directly after graduating high school and, on a whim, had joined a crew sailing to New Zealand. “The story was so rich and had so much depth to its truth,” says Woodley of her role. A sextant is a navigational instrument that can be used to measure the angle of the sun (or another astronomical object) above the horizon. With the yacht's navigation system broken by the storm, Tami used a sextant to help her find her way home. Tragically, their 22-year-old daughter, Kelli Ashcraft, was taken from them in 2017 as the result of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. In 1983, Ashcraft's then-fiancé, 34-year-old British sailor Richard Sharp, was hired to ferry the 13-metre yacht Hazaña from Tahiti to San Diego.The then 23-year-old Ashcraft accompanied him on the crossing. When I realised he wasn’t there, I wanted to die.‘From the depths of my soul, I feel an animal roar inside me. ‘While I was in the survival mode, the grief was fairly low. The yacht capsized and Tami hit her head when she was thrown against the cabin wall. So what's their...Have YOU hit a weightloss plateau? This intense moment is not depicted in the film. "The hardest part was dealing with Richard being gone," she told the Obviously, the movie version of Sharp survives well past the arrival of the hurricane, but only sort of. The boat was all-but destroyed: masts were broken off and the waterlogged sails floated uselessly in the water.Richard’s safety line dangled ominously off the boat. Still, however, the forceful inner voice kept pulling her back to sanity. Her story inspired the 2018 film Adrift. ‘Fight for your life.’At other times she heard her mother or father, or her own voice. 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A second important victory.By day nine of her ordeal, Tami could both sail and steer and briefly allowed herself a degree of hope. “I wanted to make sure we were honestly depicting what happened.”This Telegraph feature is brought to you by the new film Released in cinemas nationwide on Friday 29 June and directed by Baltasar Kormákur, We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.True story: Shailene Woodley tells the true story of a nightmare at sea in new film AdriftReal life: Adrift recounts the story of Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp's experience at seaTrue tale: Tami Oldham worked with Shailene and the rest of the cast and crew of Adrift to achieve the retelling "I just love it," she's said. He used a safety line to tether himself to the yacht in an attempt to ride out the storm and keep the boat afloat. 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She should feel joy and pride before finally concluding: ‘I will always be with you’.It was the last time she would hear the voice that had truly saved her life.Tami arrived on land triumphant, but looking like a wild woman. They tried to outrun Hurricane Raymond by sailing north, battling 140 knot winds and 40-foot waves as they did their best to keep the yacht afloat. Tami found the boat’s tinned rations among the wreckage and calculated that she could make them last up 40 days before starvation would set in. For more than 40 days, with her boat crippled, equipment smashed and heart broken, 23-year-old Tami somehow endured the elements threatening to annihilate her and then conquered them – and she did so thanks to the guiding spirit of her dead fiancé, whose insistent voice, day by day, had urged her on to a seemingly impossible survival.That voice, she says, brought her back from the brink, helping her navigate with just a sextant and the stars above her head.Now her ordeal and the extraordinary memoir that followed have been made into a big-budget Hollywood film, Adrift, set for release in June, and featuring British actor Sam Claflin as Richard and Shailene Woodley as Tami.Both are rising stars – Sam appeared in the film adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ novel Me Before You, while US actress Shailene played a teenage cancer patient in The Fault In Our Stars – and Adrift looks set to be this summer’s cinematic hit.Yet even the big-screen treatment could hardly be more dramatic than the true 1,500-mile solo epic that Tami describes in Red Sky In Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss And Survival At Sea, which will be re-published next month as Adrift.It was September 1983 when the two young sailors embarked on what they imagined to be a routine delivery for the Hazana’s British owners, Peter and Christine Compton.At 34, Richard was more than a decade older than his young American lover, but with his his lapis lazuli eyes, golden hair and ‘exotic’ English accent, he meant everything to her.